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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

India hosted first International Stamp Exhibition in New Delhi in the year 1954 to commemorate centenary of first issue of India Postage stamps, popularly known as India 1854 Lithographs.There were two known 'essays' (surfaced in an oversees action house catalog) claimed to be prepared
for the "Centenary Stamp Exhibition 1954" but never issued postally, which had Flag motifs along with a facsimile of the Half Anna litho of 1854.

The set of four stamps issued officially on the occasion by the Indian Post & Telegraph Dept.

Publicity slogan post mark provided from large post offices before and during the exhibition.Later, The Stamp Centenary Exhibition was also taken to Bombay and Calcutta.

Official stamp issued to commemorate INPEX-82, the Fourth India National Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi was very identical to the stamp essays of 1954.

Republic of Korea commemorates PHILAKOREA 84, Seoul,the miniature sheet has the national flags of all the participating Nations

Vietnam Commemorates INDIA 89 World Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi.

The Uruguayan postal department has issued a stamp to commemorate the
150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. The stamp was released by Vice President Danilo Astori along with Indian Ambassador R.
Viswanathan in the presence of Foreign Minister Luis Almagro at a
ceremony in the Foreign Ministry at Montevideo. The stamp, illustrates the portrait of Rabindranath Tagore, the flags of Uruguay
and India and the logo of INDIPEX 2011. Besides above, there are several postal issues viz. Postmarks, Special Cachets etc. depicting the Indian National flag. Here are a few of them;

About Me

Sekhar Chakrabarti - Vexillologist, author and a passionate collector of flag stamps and flag artifacts.
His name found a place in the "Limca Book of Records" for his collections of most stamps featuring the Indian National flag.
Curated International exhibitions commemorating 125th Birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata and Cairo (Egypt) organised by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Govt of India in 2011.
Had served as a jury member at several philatelic exhibitions organized by India Post and other philatelic organizations.
Curated a solo exhibition on “Indian National Flag” show casing myriad flag artifacts for the first time in India under the auspices of ICCR, Govt of India in 2014.
First Indian delegate to present original research based papers on aspects of the Indian Flag at the 25th International Congress of Vexillology (ICV25) at Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 2013, ICV26 Sydney Flag Congress, Australia in 2015 and at ICV27 in London Flag Congress in August 2017.
He lives in Kolkata, India.
Email ID: sekhar.chakrabarti@gmail.com